Kürtler ve Kürdistan

“As if they were isolated in existence, they sometimes make front-page news in newspapers. But it's big

fifteen countries, which the powers randomly divided between Türkiye, Iran, Iraq and Syria many times this century.

They consist of millions of people. As in Iraq, oil producers moved away from Kurdistan lands.

The Kurdish people, who have been reduced to a national minority everywhere, if not exiled, cannot live their identity and cannot use their language.

his right is denied. This beautiful work, rather than painting a general picture, is about a person who refuses to die by being 'murdered'.

“It tells the story of the nation.”

L'Histoire

“Kurds: In general, they are divided between three different states, namely Türkiye, Iran and Iraq, and are divided between Syria and

They are a people living as a significant minority in Soviet Armenia. Kurdistan: Mountainous,

A landlocked country. Its people; farmer and at the same time merchant, member of the Islamic religion, cultural level

A people whose patriotic feelings are alive everywhere, although they are not yet very developed.

Kurds are really unlucky. They have to wage their struggle for existence against three countries at the same time.

Moreover, as Maxime Rodinson emphasizes, they are the 'oppressed of the oppressed' because their independence is more

They first had to make demands - and some still make demands - on the part of countries that were victims of Western imperialism.

They do. But does the former state of being oppressed endow people with special attributes that transform them into oppressors? surrounding the world

Should progressive ideas turn away from national minorities when they come into conflict with third world countries? Knowledgeable,

This is the central question of this book, which is honest, disturbing and therefore highly recommended.”

Jacques Juillard, Le Nouvel Observateur

“Instead of presenting expert opinions or discourses from the 'outsider', this is a process that gives voice to Kurdish intellectuals themselves.”

One of the admirable aspects of the work is that different regimes such as Damascus, Baghdad, Tehran and Ankara

"It is to examine and compare Kurdish policies without showing tolerance."

Le Monde